Category Archives: industry

Want my data? State your business!

Techcrunch has a ‘maybe’ story on Plaxo being for sale.
For the last year, all we hear from Plaxo is adoption of open standards. Advocacy of open standards even.
They have a practical and useful service, although there’s a lot of room for improvement. So I went on and trusted them with all my contact and calendar [...]

Google bought Jaiku and the future is today

The official announcements came out yesterday and there’s, of course, a lot of speculation and guessing going on. It’s Google’s 17th acquisition this year. I’m not impressed. Who is?
What I find most exciting about this acquisition is imagining the new ways I’ll be able to communicate and organize my information using the Google applications sphere [...]

So happy…

It happens to everyone. Visions. Personally, I mentally see multi-dimensional images of information, small blocks of information actually, connecting and assembling and aligning themselves in function of many many elements, including time (I can’t really describe it), to finally form a palpable idea. Of something, whatever it is.
You know that these visions are probably just [...]

Status Quo

We’re well into the era of web 2.0. The time of the Google.
Cap Gemini, France’s greatest Accenture, showed-off their internal open source software forge at Solutions Linux 2007.
IBM is Linux’s biggest sponsor and special sponsor at the first virtual worlds conference.
Novell sleeps with Microsoft, who battles on too many fronts, badly. Bribing for ISO standards, [...]